“Loved the yarn, pattern is great, but I’m not thrilled with how it looks. It must be just me.”
I’ve been part of the online knitting community for several years now, and this all-too-common sentence really makes me angry. It seems to imply that the knitter is somehow at fault for not having a body with the precise measurements a designer used when drawing up a pattern. Of course, designers need to use a standardized set of measurements when sizing patterns! But no knitter will match these measurements exactly, nor should they. To get wardrobe staples from their efforts, knitters need only to honestly analyze their shape, pay a bit of attention to the pattern’s schematic, and possess the confidence to make modifications. I began my mission to ensure every knitter can make themselves flattering wardrobe staples by writing tutorials on the subject over the course of 2010. These tutorials cover basic principles of knitting to flatter your figure:
- Determine your body’s inherent shape
- Discover how the visual elements of clothing alter that shape’s appearance
- Choosing patterns and making modifications to those patterns that will change the appearance of your shape in the ways you desire
- Achieving a custom fit
More than a collection of tips and tricks, the tutorials offer a systematic and comprehensive way of understanding the ways clothing can change our appearance, and translating that understanding into knitted garments. The tutorials now generate so much interest that I now offer lectures and workshops on these topics, as well.
Tutorials
The tutorials are available free of charge as blog posts here. If you are interested in purchasing a formatted collection of the tutorials in PDF form, please click here: Buy entire series
Fit to Flatter workshops
Interesting in learning about Fit to Flatter in a hands-on setting? Check out my upcoming classes!